<contents>

<contents> – specifying the contents of a release

Documenting release contents

In package.xml 1.0, the contents tag was <filelist>. The purpose of the
tag changed dramatically in package.xml 2.0, warranting a name change. Now, <filelist>
can be found in the release section
of the package.xml.

<contents> is used to describe the contents of a tarball. Nothing further. All
files in the contents tag will be placed into the tarball regardless of whether they
eventually get installed by the PEAR installer. This fact can be used to create a very
versatile tarball, one that can be directly unzipped and work out of the box as well as
be installed by the PEAR installer and work out of the box.

For most release types, contents contains a single <dir> tag that then either
contains nested dir tags and/or <file> tags.